LePage administration offering incentives for school districts to share programs
The LePage administration is launching a multi-pronged effort to encourage schools and districts to share programs and services, and offering $3 million in financial incentives for schools that launch...
View ArticlePortland school board wants $5 million in capital improvement funds
Amid a debate over a $60 million bond to renovate four elementary schools, the Portland school board says it needs $5 million in capital improvement funds next year for basic maintenance projects...
View ArticlePortland School Department’s role in political push for borrowing questioned
Some Portland city councilors say the school department is improperly supporting the efforts of a political advocacy group lobbying for council and voter approval of a $70 million bond to renovate four...
View ArticleGraduates getting poor results from training at more than 800 for-profit...
More than 800 career-training programs at for-profit colleges are leaving graduates saddled with debt that exceeds 12 percent of their total earnings, putting the schools at risk of losing access to...
View ArticleSouth Portland approves later school start times
SOUTH PORTLAND — Middle school students will start classes 35 minutes later and high school students will start 40 minutes later beginning in the 2017-18 school year, the school board decided this...
View ArticleNumber of older Americans with unpaid student loans quadruples in just 10 years
The number of older Americans taking on student debt on behalf of their children and grandchildren has quadrupled in the past decade, with consumers 60 and older now holding $66.7 billion in student...
View ArticleAlfond foundation donates $1.5 million to Saint Joseph’s to boost nursing...
Saint Joseph’s College has received a $1.5 million grant from the Harold Alfond Foundation to support the creation of a new academic center in Standish to address critical shortages in Maine’s nursing...
View ArticleLePage nominates new members to UMaine System board
Gov. Paul LePage on Tuesday nominated Deputy Attorney General Lisa Marchese and a financial adviser from Fort Kent as the newest members of the University of Maine System board of trustees. Marchese,...
View ArticleKennebunk school district gets $160,000 from EPA for new buses
KENNEBUNK — Two school districts in Maine are getting a total of $200,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help pay for new school buses. Regional School Unit 21 in Kennebunk is getting...
View ArticleManchester officials agree to conduct more tests for mold in school
MANCHESTER — Regional School Unit 38 officials agreed Wednesday night to conduct additional air quality testing of classrooms at Manchester Elementary School in response to parents’ concerns over how...
View ArticlePortland grapples with $61 million elementary school bond
While few would argue that Portland’s school facilities are in need of repair, a debate is ongoing about how best to pay for the upgrades and whether a multimillion-dollar bond to rebuild four...
View ArticleLegislative committee supports spending that avoids UMaine System tuition...
The Legislature’s Education Committee signed off Thursday on a supplemental budget proposal that would give the University of Maine System additional funding in order to hold off a tuition increase in...
View ArticleCommittee endorses $61 million bond to renovate 4 Portland schools
After hours of heartfelt public testimony supporting the idea, city and school officials on Thursday endorsed a $61 million bond proposal to renovate four Portland elementary schools. “I’m thrilled,”...
View ArticleManchester school begins testing air quality, but only certain rooms
MANCHESTER — Air quality testing of select rooms began Thursday at Manchester Elementary School, although several parents continued to express concern that the entire school isn’t being tested for...
View ArticleReport flunks Obama on school program
The School Improvement Grants program spent billions but still failed to achieve meaningful results. WASHINGTON — One of the Obama administration’s signature efforts in education, which pumped billions...
View ArticleMaine student wins Horatio Alger scholarship
Sierra Goodridge was preparing to apply for a scholarship on the advice of an adviser from an Upward Bound program held at Bowdoin College when she learned about another opportunity that fit her...
View ArticleUMF students secure $5,000 grant for Farmington homeless shelter
FARMINGTON — When Melissa Sawyer-Boulette and her classmates started their resource management and grant writing class at the University of Maine Farmington this semester, they were mostly in it for...
View ArticleFormer students say for-profit nursing program in Maine was a ‘sham’
Stephanie Kourembanas, an aspiring registered nurse, says she first heard of the for-profit InterCoast Career Institute through a friend, and liked the nursing program’s rolling admissions policy and...
View ArticleProposal would make struggling Machias campus part of UMaine Orono
After years of struggling financially, the University of Maine Machias may become a satellite college of UMaine Orono under a proposal being considered Monday by system trustees. The move would cut...
View ArticlePortland High’s mascot makes the crowds cheer, though he can’t hear them
Kamron King’s goal as the mascot at Portland High School is, of course, to make the crowds cheer – even though he can’t hear them. The 15-year-old freshman, who began donning a Bulldogs suit at last...
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